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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STEPHEN J. DECKARD, OF HAMILTON, OHIO, ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY S.CARPENTER, OF SAME PLACE.

FACIAL VAPORIZER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 622,209, dated April 4,1899. Application filed November 26, 1898. Serial No. 697,503. (N 0model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, STEPHEN J. DECKARD, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Hamilton, in the county of Butler and State of Ohio,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Facial Vaporizers,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to facial Vaporizers of that class adapted to applya vapor under pressure to the surface of the skin; and the objects of myimprovement are to provide a massage-bell through which medicated vapormay be passed under pressure and in contact with the skin to interceptthe condensation and prevent scalding, whereby certain skin diseases maybe cured and the face complexion may be beautified. These objects areattained in the following manner, as illustrated in theaccompanyingdrawings, in Which Figure'l is a side elevation of my apparatus withparts in section; Fig. 2, a vertical section of the bell; Fig. 3, aninverted plan of the bell-mouth as compressed.

In the drawings, A represents the tank of a water-bath, formed of. sheetmetal and provided with closely-fittinglids B and O. Lamp D, placedthereunder, raises the temperature of the water in the tank. Bottle E,provided with cork F, is inclosed in the tank, and glass tubes G and H,inserted through the cork and lid B, depend within the interior of thebottle, the former terminating near the bottom of the bottle, the latterjust below the cork. The appropriate medicine in diluted form is placedin the bottle and heated to the desired temperature by the bath. Theouter extremity of glass tube G communicates through flexible tube Jwith rubber bulb I, that serves to compress and force air into thebottle and under the surface of its contents. After the air in thebottle is medicated or the medicine vaporized it is carried out throughglass tube H and through flexible tube K, connected thereto, and intothe interior of massage-bell L. Said bell is constructed of softindiarubber or other suitable yielding substance and in the form of acone or inverted cup. The edge of its mouth or openingM is turned inwardand upward to form annular groove or trough N, as shown in Fig. 2. Forcertain purposes the wall of the bell may be extended below the troughto form curtain O, as shown in Fig. 1. An exhaust-tube P, secured to theinside of the wall, leads from theinterior of the bell just above thetrough and discharges outside of the bell near the apex. A circularspring Q, formed of wire, is placed in the trough to keep the walls ofthe bell from collapsing and to keep its mouth in the form of a circle.Opposite sides of the wall and spring, however, may be pressed towardeach other to cause the mouth of the cup to take an oblong shape, asshown in Fig. 3, to better adapt it to cover certain irregular surfacesto which it may be applied. Textile fabric R, as cheese-cloth or othersuitable absorbent substance, may inclose the circular spring or beplaced independently in the trough to absorb the descending condensationof vapor that forms on the wall and within the bell and that otherwisemight cause a scalding of the skin by coming in contact therewith.

In operation the air compressed by the rubber bulb or other suitablepump or device is forced through the medicated solution in the bottleand thence to theinterior of the bell. The heat of the water bothfacilitates the vaporization of the solution in the bottle and heats thevapor sufficiently to maintain a high temperature within the bell and incontact with'the surface of the skin on which the mouth of the bell isapplied until it escapes therefrom through the exhaust tube. By placingthe finger on and off the dischargeopening of the exhaust-tube the vapormay be caused to pass through the bell in an intermittent current or beretained therein as long as may be necessary. By the movement of thebell over the surface of the skin, with its mouth in close contacttherewith, the skin is mildly kneaded and prepared to better respond tothe beneficial and combined action of the heat and the medicated vapor.

Having fully described my improvement,

.what I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is'- 1. The combination with a bell, an exhausttube secured therein anda supply-tube leading thereto of an annular trough within the withintlietrough and an absorbentsubstance bell and a removable circularspring within removabl y placed Within the trough.

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2. The combination with a bell constructed STEPIIEB DECKARD' 5 with aninterior annular trough and with a \Vitnesses:

supply and a discharge opening of a circular R. S. CARR,

spring removahly engaging with the bell and \V. A. HUME.

